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Hospital test diet against chemo nausea
15-07-2015 18:28
The expectation is that these people have much less troubled by unpleasant and harmful side effects of chemotherapy, such as nausea, diarrhea and fewer white blood cells, as they eat for a while fewer calories and protein. That made the Rotterdam hospital just announced.
Erasmus MC wants to do a trial in the fall in which cancer patients are put on a diet before they begin chemotherapy.
The expectation is that these people have much less troubled by unpleasant and harmful side effects of chemotherapy, such as nausea, diarrhea and fewer white blood cells, as they eat for a while fewer calories and protein. That made the Rotterdam hospital just announced.
Studies in mice showed that animals which had been on a diet had fewer side effects of the drug irinotecan, which is widely used in chemotherapy. The anti-cancer effects' still turned out to be good, says researcher Ron de Bruin.
According to the researchers make the body "protective substances, such as antioxidants, '' after a period of fasting." We think this protective reaction occurred in the history, in times of food scarcity. The body is going to protect themselves when. "" The diet that the researchers have now developed elicits the same response, causing side effects no chance anymore.
The Brown notes that can be started in the short term with the trial, since it does not involve "a new drug that weather may cause side effects and should be tested. This is a relatively simple diet that we can apply easily to humans . ''
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